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    The Paper Girl of Paris
    The Paper Girl of Paris
    The Paper Girl of Paris
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    The Paper Girl of Paris

    Written by Jordyn Taylor

    Narrated by Liza Seneca and Reba Buhr

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    ""A quick read that history lovers will easily devour.""—Teen Vogue

    ""Get ready to be transported to Paris in Taylor's incredible debut novel.""—Seventeen, Editor's Choice

    Code Name Verity meets Jennifer Donnelly’s Revolution in this gripping debut novel.

    NOW:

    Sixteen-year-old Alice is spending the summer in Paris, but she isn’t there for pastries and walks along the Seine. When her grandmother passed away two months ago, she left Alice an apartment in France that no one knew existed. An apartment that has been locked for more than seventy years.

    Alice is determined to find out why the apartment was abandoned and why her grandmother never once mentioned the family she left behind when she moved to America after World War II. With the help of Paul, a charming Parisian student, she sets out to uncover the truth. However, the more time she spends digging through the mysteries of the past, the more she realizes there are secrets in the present that her family is still refusing to talk about.

    THEN:

    Sixteen-year-old Adalyn doesn’t recognize Paris anymore. Everywhere she looks, there are Nazis, and every day brings a new horror of life under the Occupation. When she meets Luc, the dashing and enigmatic leader of a resistance group, Adalyn feels she finally has a chance to fight back.

    But keeping up the appearance of being a much-admired socialite while working to undermine the Nazis is more complicated than she could have imagined. As the war goes on, Adalyn finds herself having to make more and more compromises—to her safety, to her reputation, and to her relationships with the people she loves the most.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMay 26, 2020
    ISBN9780063012493
    Author

    Jordyn Taylor

    Jordyn Taylor is a New York City–based writer and journalist, currently the deputy editor at Men’s Health magazine; her work has appeared in the New York Observer, Mic, and Glamour.com.

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    • 4/5
      A pretty good time-slip story of untangling of a family mystery and WWII story of the Paris resistance. There's also a side story about mental health and how to help someone with depression. I wish one scene had been cut so I can put this on the shelves for middle schoolers but oh well. The narrators did a good job.

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    • 4/5
      The narrator does a wonderful job and I really enjoyed this retelling of resistance and romance during the war.I loved the characters and the story was interesting. I highly recommend this great book!
    • 4/5
      Like many YA novels, ""The Paper Girl of Paris combined historical fiction with a present-day narrative. Sixteen-year-old Alice is trying to decipher the mystery surrounding her grandmother and her great aunt Adalyn after discovering her journal. Adalyn's story gave the reader an insight into her life as a resistance fighter and Nazi spy. The two timelines didn't always run parallel. The reader knew Adalyn's story before Alice did, thanks to Adalyn's point of view which was fascinating. Alice, on the other hand only had Adalyn's diary. The most touching part of Adalyn's story was her bond with her younger sister (Alice's grandmother). It was so sad that Adalyn couldn't tell her the truth about the role she was playing in thwarting the Germans.Like most novels written using two timelines, I found the historical one far more intense and interesting. The risks Adalyn took were nail-biting and I was constantly afraid she was going to get caught. Alice's story, in comparison, was fairly bland and I don't think her mother's mental health issues were necessary or handled well. However, I did like Paul who helped Alice with her sleuthing, and all the places the two teenagers visited brought back memories of my own time spent in that beautiful city.The ending was heartbreaking and I was in tears. I must say, I thoroughly enjoyed "The Paper Girl of Paris". The writing was lovely, the characters interesting (especially the historical ones) and the storyline was compelling. A wonderful read.
    • 5/5
      *Reaction right after finishing: 5 stars doesn't do this book justice, it's THAT good!

      This was a fantastic book to read that left me with that empty feeling inside after finishing it because it was just that good!

      The book is set in Paris, in two different timelines. First we follow present-day Paris with Alice, who has recently lost her grandmother and inherited an apartment in Paris that her parents never knew about. When they go to check out this mystery apartment, Alice finds a diary that belonged to her great-aunt Adalyn. Only she never knew she had a great-aunt, and this diary reveals yet another part of her family’s past that she never knew about. After finding a photo that sparks even more questions, Alice is determined to figure out what happened in the past and what caused her grandmother to run away from it.

      That’s where the timelines changes, and we follow Adalyn’s story in Paris during World War II. She and her sister are angry at the German occupation of France, and want to do what they can to resist. When Adalyn stumbles across a boy her age who’s defacing German posters, she finds herself deep in a ring of resistance; so deep, in fact, that she can’t even tell her family as to not put them in any danger. What she doesn’t know is that her involvement in this group could ruin the very relationships she treasures the most.

      Normally, I don’t find interest in historical fiction. Sometimes it’s just too hard to read or I find that I can’t relate to it. However, as this book tells a parallel story of two timelines, it was interesting to read Adalyn’s story, while then going back to Alice trying to figure out what happened. The book was a heavy read during the references to what happened in the war – concentration camps, families being torn apart, etc. And the last 40 pages of the book or so left me wanting to cry for reasons I won’t reveal because they’ll spoil the story.

      I enjoyed both stories of Alice and Adalyn, along with the people they met along the way. Their families both had their issues, but you can see how the girls each love their families enough to do something for them. In Alice’s case, it’s getting her mom to do something about her depression aside from ignoring her “dark spells” and in Adalyn’s case, it’s fighting to undermine the Germans while trying to keep her family safe. The people that each girl meets along the way – Paul, Vivi, Luc, Pierre-Henri, Arnaud, and Marcel – are a great bunch of characters and just added enough to the story to make my heart full and sad at the same time.

      The fact that this story was set in Paris was a main reason I picked it up, to be completely honest, as it’s on my bucket list of places to visit someday. I love just about every book I read that’s set there and this book was no exception. I absolutely loved it and if you’re a fan of Paris and/or historical fiction (set in WW II), then I’m sure you’ll love this book as well!
    • 5/5
      I received this book from the Goodreads Give away in May 2020.A beautifully written story. I was so hooked on the dangers and strength of one brave girl in France during WWII; as well as the determination of the American girl in France today. Alice discovers there’s more to her great aunt’s life than the mysteries in the old diary.